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La Cieca has just learned that Anna Netrebko, who is currently awaiting the September arrival of her first child, has withdrawn from her scheduled Met performances as Mimì on December 29, 2008 and January 3 matinee, 6, and 10, 2009.
According to a press release from the met, the soprano “has decided that she will need a few more weeks than originally planned to be ready for her return to the stage” following the birth of the Schrott Tot. Maija Kovalevska will replace Netrebko for the Bohème performances. Netrebko promises a return to the company on January 26 in Lucia di Lammermoor.
OMS… i think Ruxy was commenting on your calling SB a non talent… and pointing out that she seems to be doing alright… i dont think he necessarily wants to see her step in as Lucia or any character from an opera tho… now that thats settled…
Still waiting to hear from Hairymusclez …
Flirting is LOTS more fun than arguing…
Only Mildly, none of my business, but at no point did Ruxton call Brightman an opera singer. Even if your assertion that the general media portray her as an opera singer is correct, which I don’t think it is, that doesn’t mean Ruxton asserted the same thing. He quite plainly did not.
High Cs, you have a strong point there. How come you get first call on Hairymusclez?
Because i believe i was the first to ask after him… isnt that how it works??? Dont worry… i have had a crush on this guy Randy for over a month and just found out hes got a boyfriend of 4 years… i have really crappy luck so theres probably no chance in either of us with Hairym.
But if there IS… I WAS HERE FIRST.
I find RareGems’ tone to be coutnerproductive (I hate when someone’s prime objective is to goad others with their posts) but his/her comment about bel canto operas making stars is right on the money. He/she never said that bel canto is the only way to achieve stardom but the bel canto heroines are perfect star vehicles.
Callas, Sutherland and Caballe are perfect illustrations. Sills not as much because Cleopatra made her a star. She certainly sustained her stardom with bel canto heroines but Handel made her an overnight star.
We were discussing those non talents and I feel successful or not that Sarah B is hideous. I, my opinion is she has no talent.
Success means nothing today except to her bank account.
Some people today labor under the underexposed to real opera singers idea that IT is a singer. She is not, Broadway at best. There are Hollywood people who call the equally obnoxious Josh Groban, an opera boy. Oprah yet says this., inflicting a mortal blow because that idiot has more people watching her show than amy other in the afternoon. Elect a president, or try to….horrors.
That is my discussion, not one forced on me by someone who wants to beatify this broadway star, Rux thinks she made it good, I think she made it good without any real talent.
Yawn.
I’m also in the camp that thinks S Brightman has no talent at all, other than mugging for the camera, and I’m not sure I’d really call simple money-making a talent. Did anyone else think she sounded like a synthesizer in the olympic video?
I would have thought Oprah would know, or would have researched, what an opera singer is, and not thrown the term about Groban, if that’s what she did. Oof there’s enough sloppy journalism as it is.
Cleopatra’s music needs the technique and coloratura usually, mostly, associated with bel canto. But again, Handel didn’t put Sills on the cover of Times, Donizetti did.
gracegolden if you got your bel canto impressions from the Ed Sullivan show, I have pity on you. Those cheap vocal displays, as glorious as they were, are not what bel canto is about. Also, Donizetti wrote a lot of music but not in the wholesale category that Mozart, Handel and Bach did. In fact, the amount of compositions doesn’t have anything to do with the quality of the music.
OK, were we talking about what makes sopranos overnight stars? If so, then Cleopatra made Sills an overnight start. By the time of Roberto Devereux and the Time cover, Sills was an established star.
Sarah Brightman’s recordings are all reverb and studio manipulation. She has become a complete hack. But she once did have a nice voice. I haven’t heard it in years but her Christine in Phantom sounded pretty legit to me.
Thanks Cocky and High C’s. As you can see, this time I goofed- don’t mind a good verbal exchange but next time I won’t pick a dork who can’t read English who tries to put words in my mouth.